Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2013

This book is the latest edition of the bestselling book on the C++ language and Visual C++. Ivor Horton has a loyal following who love his approach to teaching programming languages. In this book, Horton repeats the formula that made the current edition so popular: he provides a comprehensive introduction to both the Standard C++ language and to Visual C++. The book has been thoroughly updated (about 30%) for the 2013 release.

This book shows novice C++ programmers how to build real-world applications using Visual C++. No previous programming experience is required. The author uses numerous step-by-step programming examples to guide readers through the ins and outs of C++ development.

The author will fully cover new features of this significant 2013 release, including: C++ language and library changes supported under Visual Studio 2013: Delegating constructors. (supported in preview)Explicit conversion operators. (supported in preview)rvalue/lvalue Reference Casts. (supported in preview)Raw string literals. (supported in preview)Initializer lists and uniform initialization. (supported in preview)Variadic templates. (supported in preview)Default function template arguments. (supported in preview)And more IDE-specific changes: Editor options for C++ code formatting."Just my code" support for C++ debugging.C++ auto-completion features: In addition, the following will be supported in the VS 2013 RTM: -C++ 11 rvalue/lvalue casting rules-Alias templates-Defaulted functions-Deleted functions-Non-static data member initializersPlus support for new C++ 14 STL features